The Super Bowl is about a lot more than the Super Bowl. More than anything, it's about drinking.
UPDATED – 2-7-11: The Packers beat the Steelers. Bookmark this post for next year.
The Super Bowl – the media tells us that it’s the biggest sports contest of the year, an event featuring the best athletes in the world in a battle of wills to the death, winner take all.
But with a pre-game show starting shortly after church that includes untold hours of celebrity worship, reminiscences, cooking, product placements and quite a bit of non-football related material, let’s be honest: watching the Super Bowl is only about football inasmuch as attending a public school is about learning. That is, tangentially.
The Super Bowl is really about is organized drinking, if it’s about anything.
Whether it takes place in a bar, in a house or on the tailgate of Ricky Bobby’s Ford F-150, adults young and old will gather together, let bygones be bygones, and watch a bunch of armor-wearing neanderthals hit the bejeezus out of each other for a few hours.
In nearly every case, this will be accompanied by an orgy of adult-beverage consumption, the likes of which the world will not see again until St. Patrick’s day.
So what’s the proper procedure? What’s appropriate to drink, and what’s inappropriate? How much should you drink? Is your house appropriate to host a party? If so, how much alcohol will you need to buy?
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